Question
1
to CheneyVice President Cheney, there
have
been new developments in Iraq, especially having to do with the
administration's
handling.

Paul
Bremer, the
former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, gave a speech in
which
he said that we have never had enough troops on the ground, or we've
never
had enough troops on the ground. Donald Rumsfeld said he has not seen
any
hard evidence of a link between Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein.

Was
this approved
-- of a report that you requested that you received a week ago that
showed
there was no connection between Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein?

You
and Senator
Kerry have said that the war in Iraq is the wrong war at the wrong
time.

Does
that mean
that if you had been president and vice president that Saddam Hussein
would
still be in power?

Question
3
to CheneyTonight we mentioned
Afghanistan.
We believe that Osama bin Laden is hiding perhaps in a cave somewhere
along
the Afghan-Pakistan border.

If you get a second term,
what is your
plan to capture him and then to neutralize those who have sprung up to
replace him?

Question
4to
Edwards... I want people to
understand exactly
what it is, as you said, that Senator Kerry did say.

He said, "You've got to do"
-- you
know, he was asked about preemptive action at the last debate -- he
said,
"You've got to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the
global
test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're
doing
what you're doing and can prove to the world that you did it for
legitimate
reasons." What is a global test if it's not a global veto?

Question
5to
CheneyWhen the president
says
that Senator Kerry is emboldening enemies and you say that we could get
hit again if voters make the wrong choice in November, are you saying
that
it would be a dangerous thing to have John Kerry as president?

Question
6 to
EdwardsPart of what you
have said
and Senator Kerry has said that you are going to do in order to get us
out of the problems in Iraq is to internationalize the effort.

Yet French and
German officials
have both said they have no intention even if John Kerry is elected of
sending any troops into Iraq for any peacekeeping effort. Does that
make
your effort or your plan to internationalize this effort seem kind of
naive?

Question
7 to
EdwardsI want to circle
back to
a question which I'm not quite certain we got an answer to...

It's
a question of American intelligence. If this report that
we've
read about today is true, and if Vice President Cheney ordered it and
asked
about this, do you think that, in the future, that your administration
or the Bush administration would have sufficient and accurate enough
intelligence
to be able to make decisions about where to go next?

Question
8to
CheneyMr. Vice President, in June of
2000
when you were still CEO of Halliburton, you said that U.S. businesses
should
be allowed to do business with Iran because, quote, "Unilateral
sanctions
almost never work."

After
four years
as vice president now, and with Iran having been declared by your
administration
as part of the "Axis of Evil," do you still believe that we should lift
sanctions on Iran?

Question
9 to
EdwardsI do want to talk to
you
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Today,
a senior member of Islamic Jihad was killed in Gaza. There have been
suicide
bombings, targeted assassinations, mortar attacks, all of this
continuing
at a time when the United States seems absent in the peace-making
process.

What
would your administration do?

First
of all, do you agree that the United States is absent? Maybe you
don't. But what would your
administration
do to try to resolve that conflict?

Question
10to
CheneyMr. Vice President,
the
Census Bureau ranked Cleveland as the biggest poor city in the country,
31 percent jobless rate. You two gentlemen are pretty well off. You did
well for yourselves in the private sector. What can you tell the people
of Cleveland, or people of cities like Cleveland, that your
administration
will do to better their lives?

Question
11 to
EdwardsSenator Kerry said in a recent
interview
that he absolutely will not raise taxes on anyone under -- who earns
under
$200,000 a year. How can he guarantee that and also cut the deficit in
half, as he's promised?

I want to read something you
said four
years ago at this very setting: "Freedom means freedom for everybody."
You said it again recently when you were asked about legalizing
same-sex
unions. And you used your family's experience as a context for your
remarks.Can you describe then your
administration's
support for a constitutional ban on same-sex unions?

Question
13
to EdwardsAs the vice president
mentioned, John
Kerry comes from the state of Massachusetts, which has taken as big a
step
as any state in the union to legalize gay marriage. Yet both you and
Senator
Kerry say you oppose it.

Are you trying to have it
both ways?

Question
14to
CheneyPresident Bush has derided in
John
Kerry for putting a trial lawyer on the ticket. You yourself have said
that lawsuits are partly to blame for higher medical costs. Are you
willing
to say that John Edwards, sitting here, has been part of the problem?

Question
15
to EdwardsSenator Edwards, new question
to you,
same topic. Do you feel personally attacked when Vice President Cheney
talks about liability reform and tort reform and the president talks
about
having a trial lawyer on the ticket?

Question
16to
CheneyBut in particular, I want to
talk
to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS
right
here in this country, where black women between the ages of 25 and 44
are
13 times more likely to die of the disease than their
counterparts.

What
should the
government's role be in helping to end the growth of this epidemic?

Question
17
to EdwardsTen men and women have been
nominees
of their parties since 1976 to be vice president. Out of those ten, you
have the least governmental experience of any of them.

What qualifies you to be a
heartbeat
away?

Question
18to
CheneyWithout mentioning them by
name at
all, explain to us why you are different from your opponent, starting
with
you, Mr. Vice President.

Question
19
to EdwardsFlip-flopping has become a
recurring
theme in this campaign, you may have noticed.

Senator
Kerry
changed his mind about whether to vote to authorize the president to go
to war. President Bush changed his mind about whether a homeland
security
department was a good idea or a 9/11 Commission was a good idea.What's wrong with a little
flip-flop
every now and then?

Question
20to
CheneyWhichever one of you is
elected in
November -- you mentioned those three electoral votes in Wyoming and
how
critical they've turned out to be.

But
what they're
a sign of also is that you're going to inherit a very deeply divided
electorate,
economically, politically, you name it. How will you set out, Mr. Vice
President,
in a way that you weren't able to in these past four years, to bridge
that
divide?